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作者：Jacobs, Charlotte; Lee, Gwendolyn K.
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Research SummaryFor endogenous shaping to be recognized as an evolutionary process that helps explain the co-evolution of firms and their environment, theories on shaping need to provide a direct link between the endogenously introduced modifications and the evolutionary trajectory of actors in the industry. Integrating insights from the sensemaking literature into the evolutionary perspective on shaping, we establish this link and identify evolutionary feedback-the response of market actors t...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas; Rios, Luis A.; Silverman, Brian S.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Toronto
摘要：Research SummaryStrategy research has long been concerned with how firms build on the technological knowledge they create, and has focused on legal enforcement, complementary assets, and location decisions. Less attention has been paid to how internal firm structures support the appropriation of future cumulative innovations: what has been termed generative appropriability. Drawing on innovation and social network research, we propose that more integrated intrafirm inventor networks, and those...
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作者：Stroube, Bryan K.; Dushnitsky, Gary
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Entrepreneurship is presented as a path to prosper through commerce, yet there is evidence that certain communities are underrepresented in entrepreneurship. Technological developments such as low-code e-commerce tools have altered the barriers to launch commercial ventures. Do these tools alter entrepreneurial inclusion? We study an omnipresent low-code tool, Shopify, which has dramatically reduced the financial and technical barriers to e-commerce. We undertake an abductive analysis using un...
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作者：Borchhardt, Geoffrey; Kovacs, Balazs; Rogan, Michelle
作者单位：University of Oregon; Yale University; University of Oxford
摘要：Research SummaryIn market networks, firms regularly seek partners with needed expertise, but these partners often work with the firms' competitors. How such second-order competitive overlap affects partner selection is unclear. Prior theory assumes firms view networks as pipes and emphasizes flows of competitor information via the shared partner as key in partner selection. We propose that firms also view networks as prisms and use competitive overlap as a signal of a potential partner's exper...
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作者：Asghar, Nauman; Obloj, Tomasz
作者单位：University of Liverpool; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Research SummaryWe investigate the role of organizational structure in influencing internal capital reallocations. Despite the importance of flexible capital reallocation, empirical evidence suggests remarkably high levels of stability in these decisions. Adopting a behavioral perspective, we focus on information processing demands faced by boundedly rational decision-makers as an antecedent of such decision patterns. We argue, and provide evidence, that centralization of decision rights, whic...
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作者：Law, Christopher G.; Howell, Travis; Bingham, Chris; Bermiss, Y. Sekou
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：Research Summary: Black women are drastically underrepresented in entrepreneurship, prompting questions about what factors may increase their representation. In this study, we focus on one factor: working as an employee in a startup. While research shows that employment in startups increases the likelihood of founding one's own company, we explore whether this effect differs for Black women. Using abductive methods and a proprietary dataset from Venture For America, we find that the relationsh...
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作者：Zheng, Yanfeng; Wang, Qinyu (Ryan)
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Research SummaryCorporate scandals often create moral struggles for ecosystem stakeholders who collaborate with scandal-tainted firms on mutually beneficial projects. We examine how these stakeholders navigate their relationships with such firms. Drawing on cognitive dissonance theory, we posit that stakeholders typically withdraw from such collaborations after a scandal. However, if stakeholders continue their engagement, they tend to emphasize the importance of collaborative projects and cou...
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作者：Bu, Juan; Wang, Stephanie Lu; Lee, Yejee; Li, Dan
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Research SummaryThis study examines how immigrant CEOs influence the geography of multinational enterprises' (MNEs) corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) incidents. Building on place attachment theory and social capital theory, we theorize that immigrant CEOs have strong psychological attachment to and social capital in their homeland countries, which could reduce the occurrence and media disclosure of their MNEs' CSI incidents in those countries. Moreover, this effect will be further enhanc...
